About the Authors

Abul Hasan Sardar

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bihar, India

Armando Jardim

Affiliation Institute of Parasitology and Centre for Host-Parasite Interactions, Macdonald Campus, McGill University, Quebec, Canada

Ayan Kumar Ghosh

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bihar, India

Abhishek Mandal

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bihar, India

Sushmita Das

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bihar, India

Savita Saini

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Bihar, India

Kumar Abhishek

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bihar, India

Ruby Singh

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bihar, India

Sudha Verma

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bihar, India

Ajay Kumar

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bihar, India

Pradeep Das

drpradeep.das@gmail.com

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bihar, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AHS AJ AKG AM PD. Performed the experiments: AHS AKG AM PD. Analyzed the data: AHS AJ AKG AM SD KA SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AHS AJ AKG AM SD KA SS RS SV AK PD. Wrote the paper: AHS AJ AKG AM PD.